Mirror displaying device



Nov. 3, w3? J. GIESECKE ET AL MIRROR DISPLAYING DEVICE Filed May 17, 1930 Patented Nov. 3, i931y UNITED 'STATES PATENT OFFICE mms emanen am: ummm emsncxn, or Lmzre. amm manon. marmi-me' nnvrcn Application and any 1r,

This invention relates to an amusement apparatus and consists in the provision of a cabinet containing a plurality of differently distorting mirrors and means for displaying such mirrors in succession. The mechanism may be normally locked and adapted to be released on the insertion of a coin.

Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a. front view of the mechanism,

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same,

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the cabinet on a reduced scale, and

Fig. 4 is a view of a detail.

A suitable mounted cabinet a contains a plurality of mirrors b 1-6 which are suspendedone behind another on cords c and al'. The mirrors are curved or corrugated in different manners, some verticall and others horizontally, so as to reiiect di erently distorted images for the amusementof the observer. The cords c and d are led over pulleys e arranged on shafts f in the upper part of the cabinet, and are connected at the ends to pulleys z' and c arranged loosely on a shaft j in the lower part of the cabinet. The cord d is led direct from the pulley e to the pulley la while the cord c is deflected over a pulley li arranged on a shaft g. Each mirror is controlled 'independently in this manner,

while the shafts f, g, and j, are common to the 4 respective pulleys. The controlling pulleys z' and k of each mirror are interconnected so that they can be employed ory winding the cords and raising the mirrors from a concealed position in the cabinet into displaying position in front of a window m provided in the front wall of the cabinet. For raising the mirrors the shaft j is provided with the rigidly secured discs each carrying a tappet y adapted to engage a pin lw on a pair of pulleys i, c. A detachable crank handle l on the shaft j is used for turning the latter so as to raise all the mirrors together, which is effected by one turn of the handle. Doublearmed catches n, pivoted at o and controlled by springs c: are adapted to engage in notches in the pulleys i for retaining the latter with the mirrors in raised position, the shaft j being restored by a spring to its initial position as soon as it is released. For each catch,

.arm t so as to prevent the 1880, Serial No. 453,268, and in Germany December 1'?, 1928.

a push button t is provided by the de ression of which the catch can be operate for releasing the mirror. This arrangement allows the mirrors to be dro ped one by one from the front rewards for isplaying all the mirrors in succession.

The shaft j carries a structure comprising two arms u and v which participate in its rotation. A bell-crank mounted on a pivot 8 has, on one arm t, a catch which engages the shaft j normally from being rotated. Another arm t of the bell crank is situated under a coin chute v so as to intercept'coins passing down the latter from a coin slot g. The bell crank is balrocked by the coin for reanced so as to be leasing the shaft j, its movement being in the rst place limlt'ed by abutment against the arm u. The shaft j can now be turned for raising the mirrors, and as the arm u turns with the shaft, it releases the bell crank so that it can turn under the weight of the coin for dropping the latter, whereupon the bell crank returns to its initial osition for rearresting the shaft j as the atter is rcstored.

Buffers may be provided for reducing the shocks of the mirrors as they drop into the lower part of the cabinet, and the latter is provided with guide elements which maintain the vmirrors in their proper planes.

e device may be modified in various manners. For instance a single push button may be employed by the depression of which the catch n of the first mirror, or of a screen which covers the mirrors, is operated, the catches of the succeeding mirrors being formed with arms narranged seas to be engaged by mirrors in advance thereof as said mirrors drop. In this manner the mirrors will be automatically released in succession. Means may be provided for braking the mirrors so as to retain each one in view for a sufficiently long time. e claim: I

1. A mirror displaying device comprising a cabinet, a plurality of differently distorting mirrors suspended from cords within said cabinet one behind another, pulleys whereon said cords can be Wound for raising the mirrcrs together from a. concealed position into displaying position, means for retaining them in displaying position, means for releasing and dropping the mirrors one by one in succession, a shaft whereon said pulleys are arranged to rotate a detachable crank handle on said shaft, and carriers connected to said shaft so as to engage the pulleys and wind the cords when the shaft is rotated in one direction.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the mirrors are retained in raised position by catches adapted to engage in notches in said pulleys.

3. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the mirrors are retained in raised osition by catches adapted to engage in notc es in said pulleys, the releasing means consisting of a push button whereby the first catch is open ated, and arms on the succeeding catches adapted to be engaged in succession by the falling mirrors so as to relerse their own mirrors automatically.

4. A device as claimed in claim 1 in combination with a catch normally locking said shaft, and means for releasing the shaft from said catch by the insertion of a coin into the cabinet.

JULIUS GIESECKE. HERMANN GIESECKE. 

